Day 1a Complete: Steve O'Dwyer Leads The Way
Day 1a of the European Poker Poker Tour Copenhagen Main Event has been completed after seven 60-minute levels here at the Casino Copenhagen inside the Radisson Blu Hotel. A total of 83 players exchanged DKK37,275 (€5,000) for 30,000 tournament chips and the chance to become an EPT champion. When time was called on proceedings only 48 of those players remained, the best placed of them all being Steve O'Dwyer who bagged and tagged a more than healthy 190,975 chips.
O'Dwyer built his stack quite early in the day and when we asked him how he replied, "I got lucky I guess," but it cannot all be down to luck as O'Dwyer always seems to be at the right end of the chip counts. His massive total is going to take some catching and it will not be a surprise if he is the overall chip leader going into Wednesday's Day 2.
Hot on O'Dwyer's heels is Lauri Varonen on 165,150 whilst third place at the end of Day 1a belongs to Roberto Romanello, the Welshman bagging up 115,475 worth of precious ceramic discs.
There were only two Team PokerStars Pros in the field today, Pierre Neuville and Arnaud Mattern and both managed to scrape through to Day 2 with 15,000 and 19,900 chips respectively.
Tomorrow should see a much larger field with more than 150 players expected. Amongst them will be PokerStars Team pros Johnny Lodden, Viktor Blom and Theo Jorgensen, serial online qualifier Martin Jacobson and scores more talented players to boot.
Join us from 1200 CET for all the action, as it happens, live from the EPT Copenhagen Main Event.